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- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to oversee the View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline, internal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
demands of city officials, cable operators encountered higher than expected construction costs as they entered urban markets. It proved difficult to lay cable under busy city streets while avoiding disruption to existing power, phone,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
competitiveness of her exports and the costs of her imported inputs. In a microeconomic sense, the business person also cares about tariffs (which affect trade), industrial policies, tax policies (on business directly, but also policies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
deal monetized Branch’s performance with the Patriots, capitalizing on his reputation as a big-game competitor and paying him far more than his statistics justified. In five years with Seattle, Branch started only 40 games and failed to... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
evaluate them and take proper action if they are not performing.” Under these pressures from capital markets, most executives would begin restructuring and cutting costs immediately. Dryer's senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
difficult question, How are we going to make good on those promises? Pensions are a costly legacy for many companies. Photo: iStockPhoto The question is particularly urgent now, says Viceira, who teaches in the area of investment management and View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
suggest that the cost of a delay of this length is upwards of 7% of the total cost of bringing a new high-risk device to market. Considering potential explanations, I find that approval times are largely... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
domestic savings, has no effect on the financial account, and leads to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBrigham and Women's Hospital: Shapiro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
many consolidations in the past decade. Does the rapid consolidation of New World producers make profits at the cost of diversity? Should a beer company own a vineyard? A: The scope economies across the beer and wine businesses appear... View Details
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
time to be in graduate school,” she said. “Entrepreneurship, e-commerce, technology; everything was new. Private equity and venture capital were starting to grow.” After graduation, Beck had an offer to return to... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
worldwide.) Two years later, I began thinking about a suggestion for a women-led SPAC. So, I developed a 90-day plan, which involved learning about capital markets, investment banking, SEC rules. And on day 89, I was ringing the bell at... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
land trust with a mission to “preserve, for public use and enjoyment, properties of exceptional scenic, historic, and ecological value in Massachusetts.” In Kendall’s 12-year tenure at the organization, he led its largest capital... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches investment management and View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial frictions and the use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
behaviors associated with building social capital influence individuals' psychological experiences and work outcomes. August 2014 Child Development Why We Think We Can't Dance: Theory of Mind and Children's Desire to Perform By: Chaplin,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne